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19 Sep 2010 - HIIT has been successful in the Academy of Finland evaluations. The academy has granted  € 1.7 million to HIIT researchers' projects. In the call the academy funded five projects led by HIIT researchers Valentin Polishchuk, Teemu Roos, Andrei Gurtov, Samuel Kaski and Sasu Tarkoma.

20 Sep 2010 - The more a user expects to like using a new mobile phone, the more he will like to use it. Users' favorable expectations make them forgive encountered usability problems and perceive new mobile phones usable.

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Helsinki Institute of Information Technology HIIT launches an extensive survey, aiming to chart the conserns about information society.

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23 Aug - Professor Marko Turpeinen has been appointed Director of the Helsinki Node of ICT Labs, one of the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).

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23 Aug - Teenage online community users feel part of their online community almost as much as they feel part of their own family. An international study of the users of teenage online community Habbo reveals that users identify more strongly with the online community than with their neighbourhood or offline hobby group

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